Overview - Keeping Up Appearances

Overview

A snobbish housewife is determined to climb the social ladder, in spite of her family's working class connections and the constant chagrin of her long suffering husband.

Seasons

• Name: Specials

  Episode: 25

  Christmas may come but once a year, but for arch-snob Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced Bouquet, if you please), disaster, drama and humiliation – all obstacles on the ladder to social-climbing success – are far more frequent. In these Christmas Specials we see a delightful cruise on the QE2 start in a less-than-delightful muddy field. We see a glorious English Civil War pageant, with Hyacinth as Queen Henrietta Maria, go royally wrong when the cast fails to turn up and her unsavoury relatives step into the breach. And we see that even The Season of Good Will isn’t immune from woe, as a sherry-fuelled Richard, dressed as Santa, brings Hyacinth tidings devoid of any comfort and joy.

  Date first aired: 1991-12-25

• Name: Series 1

  Episode: 6

  Date first aired: 1990-10-28

• Name: Series 2

  Episode: 10

  Date first aired: 1991-08-31

• Name: Series 3

  Episode: 7

  Date first aired: 1992-09-05

• Name: Series 4

  Episode: 7

  Date first aired: 1993-09-04

• Name: Series 5

  Episode: 10

  Date first aired: 1995-09-02